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February 24, 2014 v5.3.2 New Features Sell Downloads or Provide them to Subscribers Publishers can now upload individual files and present them for sale using the Tinypass API or a simple Sale Page. Advanced Publishers using the Tinypass API can … Continued

You’ve worked hard on creating reports, now sell them securely

The Piano publisher dashboard now has a Downloads product you can use to sell reports right from your website. Whether you spend night and day creating the best video game guides, or want to start selling stock picks & financial data to your peers at work, you can use Downloads to securely store your files, provide the appropriate meta-data, and easily link to a Piano downloads page where your users can purchase the content.

Fantasy blog & draft sheets

Are you making money with a fantasy sports blog? Hopefully it’s not just from advertising revenue… While you may not want your fans to pay to see your posts, you may want to start selling draft kits or excel projections. Just create a publisher account, then hit ‘start’ next to downloads. Then just fill in the blanks on the download form, upload your file, and grab the hyperlink to start selling. You’ll definitely want to create a cover image for your download, even if it’s just a screenshot. Create your ads, marketing pages, and emails to start driving traffic to new downloadable content.

Financial analysis & stock picks

Are you doing well with your financial analysis site, but want to kick up the revenue? Take those pieces of money-making advice, put them into a weekly downloadable PDF report, and sell them right from your site. At the end of each blog post, just link to your Piano Download url, and encourage your readers to read more for actionable data. Your followers, especially those looking for financial gain, are always looking for that extra edge that you already have. Why not sell it to them using Piano?

Ask for support on your new single

Release a new single on your site recently? Ask your friends, family, and fans to pay you a few bucks to support the next one! Of course they know you’ll give it to them for free, but you know they’ll support the indie music life by helping you out for all your hard work. After you sell a couple singles, you’ll have enough dough to make the whole album, and you know what to do when that’s ready! Get started here with Piano Downloads.

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Welcome to Piano!

We're happy you found us! You may already be using Piano, or just starting to learn about it. Either way, we're excited to see you here. We love valuable content as much as you do - that's why we work day and night to make sure you can support your content business with beautiful and simple software tools.

Who are we?

Piano is a dedicated and professional organization comprised of professionals from journalism, advertising, design, and banking. We came together because we believe that in this digital world there should be more than one bookstore, more than one music store, and more than one video store. We are based in New York, and love to hear from our customers in person or on the phone.

What we offer

Piano is a flexible platform that can help you with things like raising money for charity, selling a web series, or creating a payment solution like the New York Times. Chances are, if you have a website, and you are trying to make money from it, Piano has a solution for you. Want to find the right product for you? Visit our Choosing a Solution page.

In addition to these software products, Piano offers you AND your users outstanding customer support from our New York office. We care about you and our product, if you ever have a suggestion or a problem, just email support@Piano.io or give us a call at +1 646-350-1999 and dial 0 for "Human Being."

The first step - signing up

Signing up for a publisher account is FREE and you are not committed to ANYTHING. If you are deciding between software products other than Piano, we encourage you to just type in a few things and sign up for an account so that you can poke around the publisher dashboard. Seriously... just sign up for an account. It's free, and you'll like what you see: https://dashboard.Piano.io/register

When you sign up for an account, you'll automatically be in trial mode. After you update your business information, then you can submit your application for review. It usually takes us less than 24 hours to approve/deny an application. For more information about our approval process, check out the Registration & Application section.

Getting paid

Thirty days after a transaction takes place, you can withdraw the money. We have this waiting period to protect you (and us) from dealing with refunds, chargebacks, and business disasters. You can get paid by check, direct deposit wire transfer, DWOLLA, or Paypal.

How does Piano make money?

"Wait, is it actually free?" Well obviously it's not free. We take a percentage of each transaction to cover payment processing fees. Please contact support@Piano.io for our fees. You may find yourself thinking I could be charged directly by the payment provider if I used Stripe or PayPal..." But unlike those payment gateways, we let you control access to content, customize site experiences, set business rules, manage user accounts, view analytics, and provide end-user customer service.

Enterprise clients

Piano offers professional services and enterprise pricing to clients that meet a certain threshold. You know who you are, and if you are interested in talking to our enterprise sales team, just call +1646-350-1999 and press 1 for sales. In addition to our software, we also offer consulting services that we like to call Content Monetization Planning.